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Virtual
Observations
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Virtual Observations
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To make
students acquainted with virtual
observatories and related issues.
Omschrijving
In this course we will discuss modern astronomical
virtual observatories. National and foreign lecturers will present
various
international Virtual Observatory (VO) systems.
The course starts with an introduction to
information systems and how to use these to obtain astrometrically
and photometrical calibrated astronomical images.
Two lecturers will present the European
Virtual Observatory and one the UK AstroGrid
virtual
observatory.
The lectures will discuss the design of these
virtual observatory systems, the principle concepts and how they work
and
connect users to large
databases, parallel computers, data archives, networks and
grid infrastructure. Lecturers will also
explain how users can do their research with the VO systems and during the
practical assignments exercises will done using these systems. Data acquired by students in December 2006 in
This course is supported by the EU through
the European Virtual Observatory Data Center Alliance (Euro-VO DCA).
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Hoorcollege
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written examination
and
practical assignments
vaksoort
master
docent(en)
prof.dr. E.A. Valentijn
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PROGRAMME
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Lectures
Virtual Observations
at the
supported by
Kapteyn Institute,
OmegaCEN and EURO-VO Data Center Alliance
AstroGrid and
Lofar
Organized
by Prof Edwin Valentijn
for the
curriculum
Instrumental Astronomy supervised by Prof Reynier
Peletier
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Duration:
8 weeks
Format: 2 lectures/week each 2h = 2*2 = 4h/week = total 32h
lectures
8
* 2h werkcolleges:
total 16 h
Lectures
on
Wednesdays
Practical
(werkcollege) Wednesdays
(for some foreign lecturers Friday lectures might
be given on
Wednesday afternooons 13:30)
Time:
Week 48 - 51 (27 Nov -22 Dec); Week 2- 5 (8 Jan -
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Lecturers: lectures
workcollgs
total
16 x 2h 8 x 2h
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1
WEEK 48 27 Nov 2006
E.
Valentijn (Gr):
Information
Systems
The Virtual
observatory
(2x)
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2
WEEK 49 4 dec 2006
E.
Deul (
from
local astrometry to global astrometry (1x)
werkcollege
(1x)
Lecture Deul (.ppt)
Lecture Deul (.pdf)
G.
Verdoes Kleijn(Gr): photometry
from
local photometry to
global photometry (1x)
Lecture
Verdoes (.ppt)
Lecture Verdoes(.pdf)
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3
WEEK 50 11 Dec 2006 THIS WEEK COLLEGE + WERKCOLLEGE on
FRIDAY!
wednesday werkcollege continued
Sebastien
Derriere Centre
Donne Strasbourg-
VIZIER, Aladin (1x)
Both
on
FRIDAY
VO services
werkcollege
(1x)
Lecture Derrriere .pdf
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4
WEEK 51 18 Dec 2006
R.
Peletier (Gr): Scientific
use of Astronomical
Databases
static
databases (MAST, SDSS IPAC etc) (1x)
werkcollege look-up
databases 0n Friday 9:00
(1x)
Lecture Peletier .pdf
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5
WEEK 2 8 Jan
Mark
Allen(EURO-VO DCA)
VO tools and services and science goals
(1x)
werk
college VO tools
(1x)
Lecture Allen part 1 (.ppt)
Lecture Allen part 1 (.pdf)
Lecture
Allen part 2 (.ppt)
Lecture
Allen part 2 (.pdf)
open
open
(1x)
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6
WEEK 3 15 Jan
E.A.
Valentijn
AstroWise - virtual
observatory
(2x)
Lecture
AstroWise Valentijn (.ppt)
Lecture AstroWise
Valentijn (.pdf)
werkcollege INT La Palma
Data etc
(1x)
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7
WEEK 4 22-26 Jan 2007
N.
Walton (
werk
college AstroGRID
(1x)
Lecture Walton(.ppt)
Lecture Walton (.pdf)
Lecture Walton part 2
(.ppt)
Lecture Walton part 2
(.pdf)
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8
WEEK 6 29 jan - 2 feb 2007
werk
colleges VO, AstroWise
and INT La Palma data (2x)
M. de
Vos (Astron) e-Lofar
(1x)
Lecture de Vos (.pdf)
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Instructions can be
found
in here:
"Werkcolleges" total 16 hour
At
the werkcolleges VO tools and astronomy
database
access will be excersized.
At
the werkcollege in jan
2007 Wide field imaging data collected
by Groningen students at La Palma in the
last week of december 2006 will be
ingested,
processed and published using VO
technology.